DETROIT, MI - The Detroit Black Chamber of Commerce is hosting a construction open house for the dozens of bid packages available on the M1 Rail streetcar project.

Registration for the open house, held at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African History at 315 E. Warren Ave. in Detroit, begins at 1 p.m. The event will include a presentation and discussions with the $140 million project’s construction manager, Stacy and Witbeck.

Stacy and Witbeck announced Monday it has 30 different bid packages available on construction of the 3.3-mile streetcar line, all of which can be seen at this dedicated website. Expected to be complete in 2016, crews have already begun doing utility relocation work for the lightrail line on the lower end of Woodward Avenue.

Once finished, the M1 Rail line will run from W. Grand Boulevard in New Center to Congress Street in downtown Detroit, and include 11 stops along the way. Tickets to ride will cost $1.50.

California-based Stacy and Witbeck was named construction manager and general contractor for the project in July. The firm has constructed 17 streetcar developments in the U.S., the first of which was in Portland, Ore. The company is also currently building three streetcar projects in Seattle, Salt Lake City and Dallas.

The federal government signed off on the M1 Rail project in April. In January 2013, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced $25 million in federal funding for the transit project. Fifteen private donors led by Penske Chairman Roger Penske, Quicken Chairman Dan Gilbert and M-1 CEO Matt Cullen contributed $100 million to the project.

David Muller is the business reporter for MLive Media Group in Detroit. Email him at dmuller@mlive.com or follow him on Twitter or Facebook.